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In order to support special form (#47374), the kernels have to respect the selection vector. Currently none of the kernels does. And it's almost impossible for us to make all existing kernels to respect the selection vector at once (and we probably never will). Thus we need an incremental way to add selection-vector-aware kernels on demand, meanwhile accommodate legacy (selection-vector-non-aware) kernels to be executed "selection-vector-aware"-ly in a general manner - the idea is to first "gather" selected rows from the batch into a new batch, evaluate the expression on the new batch, then "scatter" the result rows into the positions where they belong in the original batch.
This makes the take and scatter functions dependencies of the exec facilities, which is in compute core (libarrow). And take is already in compute core. Now we need to move scatter.